#vergence

[reescrever-as-estrelas]

If you are a reylo shipper, you probably thought of Ben Solo when you heard in episode 7 of The Acolyte information about Vergence (a concentration of Force energy in a certain location that has the power to create life).

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Exegol, the planet where we last saw Ben Solo in The Rise Of Skywalker, has a unique vergence in the Force, a transportive vergence. Exegol is also called the place of rebirth.

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According to this story [Star Wars: Dark Legends - "A Life Immortal"], Exegol is a unique vergence in the Force, where "the veil between life and death [is] thin."

Source: Screenrant

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"To Exegol. To the place of rebirth."

- Star Wars: Shadow of the Sith (book)

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"Exegol was a dark, barren, and rocky planet with desert flats. Its dry conditions, combined with the rubbing of dust particles in its atmosphere, created enormous static discharges that appeared as lightning strikes from the planet, which made the atmosphere too dangerous to deploy deflector shields. The dead and desolate world was covered with enormous fissures that reached deep into its crust. These were excavated by Sith loyalists who were attempting to reach a transportative vergence they believed to lie beneath the surface."

Source: WOOKIEEPEDIA

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They were looking for a transportative vergence to get to where? The World Between Worlds? 👀 Or another place?

Could Exegol's vergence be a portal to the World Between Worlds? 👀

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Let us also not forget the Power of the Dyad.

"The life force of your bond…a dyad in the Force. A power like life itself. Unseen for generations."

- Palpatine

"A vergence, sometimes described as a Force nexus, a nexus, or a locus, was an unusual yet naturally occurring concentration of Force energy localized around a place, object, or person."

Source: WOOKIEEPEDIA

Like Anakin Skywalker, would the dyad in the Force also be a vergence? Could the Vergence of Exegol and also the power of the dyad have kept Ben Solo alive and transported him to World Betweem Worlds? 👀

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There are many ways to bring Ben Solo back!! 🦋

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The Acolyte Alphabet: B

BRENDOK

The palatial world of Brendok, long thought to be uninhabited by those in the Core, is not a part of the united planets of the Galactic Republic.

In the time of the High Republic, the planet was among the worlds struck by the Emergences that destroyed entire civilizations in the wake of the Great Hyperspace Disaster. However, a vergence in the Force was believed to be behind the natural reclamation that led to Brendok becoming a lush, green world capable of supporting life.

Covered in vast mountains and mossy forests, Brendok is home to an ancient fortress where a coven of witches dwell beneath the world’s twin moons.

[drakeanddice]

I owe y'all a "Deeper Down" post...

Gotta finish this weird post-scifi Nine Princes In Amber forged in the dark expansion zine first. Then more text adventure. Good plan? Great plan.

[sw5w]

Approaching the Jedi Temple

STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace 01:24:18

[marvelstars]

Anakin himself was called a "Vergence" in the force but given he was born on Tatooine it´s possible the planet itself is like Dagobah, it´s strong in the force so other planets like Mortis may be as well.

Also while Palpatine definitely suggested to Anakin he and Plagueis had something to do with Anakin´s birth on EP III as a way to manipulate him, Darth Plagueis novel from legends is quite clear showing Anakin´s birth was the force striking back agaisnt the Sith intention of becoming inmortal and ruling for hundred of years, in the novel Darth Plagueis was still alive in TPM and tried to kill Anakin before he grew up and had the chance to ruin their plans but he was quite afraid of him, he was able to see Vader´s figure in his force vision but he was too late, Anakin went to fight on Naboo and Palpatine killed him when he was named Chancellor.

So Plagueis and Palpatine in legends and disney canon, don´t have any connection to Anakin beyond the fact Anakin was made to defeat their plans in the force and in the physical world.

So Tatooine has gotta be some weird Vergence right? If we're going with Mae & Osha were able to be born/conceived with magic because Brendock is a Vergence (it wasn't strictly said but it seems pretty obvious), then the same is likely true about Anakin but it wasn't magical intervention but rather the will of the Force itself. Or at least wherever he was born has gotta be a Vergence (if I remember correctly, he wasn't actually born on Tatooine in Legends but I don't think that's been explored in canon).

[marinersubmariner]

descent / ascent

[faksyan]

Did any losers and nerds actually want to hang out with the cool kids in school like all shows and musicals always say. Like I was a loser and nerd throughout all of school and even before that in kindergarten and I just sort of. never got that. all this media is always like sure you have a BEST FRIEND who shares ALL OF YOUR INTERESTS and LOVES YOU DEARLY but don't you wish you were hanging out with THESE PEOPLE who BULLY you instead. and it's always kind of like. no? I'd like to play and draw?

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The Father, the Son, and the Daughter

In what we're to believe is his great quest, Baylan's only appearance in episode 8 shows him standing on the arm of a giant statue of the Father. (I don't think there is any debate that this statue and the others depict the Mortis gods (or beings, because I don't necessarily see them as gods in the traditional sense), especially with the earlier appearance of Morai).

Observe, on the right, a statue depicting the Son, who, from the Clone Wars [s3, e15-16], we know is aligned with the dark side. On the left, we see a statue of the Daughter, who is aligned with the light side. Her statue has been completely disfigured. This symbolism alone is very curious. One interpretation is quite literal: that Baylan is connected to the dark side of the force, or that his path - his quest - belongs to the dark side in some manner. Another interpretation pertains to the nature of the planet Peridea. As I wrote before, Peridea appears to be marked by some sort of dark magick. As Baylan remarked in episode 6, "Something stirs here". And so, perhaps the crumbling nature of the statue depicting the Daughter is symbolic of this darkness.

One thing I noticed speaks to the first interpretation. As Baylan stands at the hand of the Father, staring into the distance, one sees on the horizon a mountain with what appears to be a pulsing beam of light (edit: since first publishing this post, I realised this could very well be the Mortis monastery). The light is shooting out from the mountain peak upwards into the sky. From the perspective we're given, it appears this is the direction the hand of the Father statue is pointing. Surely, that is not a coincidence; coupled to the fact that we know something is calling to Baylan.

At present, I can't see any of this having to do with Abeloth. I just don't see any sort of Abeloth arc being consistent with the trinity of the Mortis beings. I would not be surprised if it was the Son, who, for whatever reason, had become aware of Baylan and has since been calling to him. We know this has happened in the past. After Ezra discovered the mural of the Mortis gods on the Jedi Temple of Lothal, which led to the entrance of the World Between Worlds, upon exiting the Son spoke to him [Rebels, s4 e13]. Thinking about it now, it could be interpreted as though he was calling to Ezra: "the future can still be changed" .

[sukugo]

character who is so powerful that their presence itself overgoes all consent, where the other characters exist below their desires and are made to please them, regardless of whether they want to or not.

esp when the character isn't even relatively domineering or authoritative during it. instead they're completely passive. whimpering and twitching and overall being so lost in pleasure that leaves no space for action, much less coercion. they're a passive receiver of pleasure.

except they, as an existence, cannot be passive. they're mingling with godhood, they're bigger than themselves, than their body, their pleasure holy and divine and all-encompassing. their touch a religious experience.

to have them, a compulsion, more than an action born of actual personal desire

[dapurinthos]

thinking about the sith shrine in the depths again, with special note to:

the blight is attacking the back wall of the chamber of the sith shrine in the depths. i don't think that the chamber that the jedi acknowledge as the extent of the sith shrine is the extent of the shrine. i think it's an antechamber.

because the architecture isn't correct. a truly sacred space is within the temple, is separated from it. it's a second enclosure. a ziggurat has its on the top, after successive levels and outer rooms. a peripteros has its portico, then the entrance chamber, then the interior chamber. even rock-cut temples have a division between the 'lay person' area and the 'priests only' area. look at the interior of the only sith temple we've seen: the tomb of darth bane on korriban (in rebels, they went up outside of the temple). there's the great chamber in which his coffin sits but also the coffin moves to reveal the sacrificial chamber, the sanctum sanctorum of that particular temple (which is probably several millennia old, since zannah isn't going to stick around to build her old master a whole-ass temple on korriban, especially when they're supposed to be hiding. also the lettering on that sarcophagus is gibberish, which fits more as a 'these letters are magic, we don't know what they do, but they're magic so we're putting them here' way that writing is treated when it's still a very new invention. so a very new importation by the exiles).

not to mention that it allows the whole 'no one has set foot here for 5000 years' from tarkin to be accurate as well as the jedi of the high republic using the shrine to purify objects. what they think is the inner sanctum is not the inner sanctum. the inner sanctum is behind that wall, and whatever is behind that wall has enough of the living force imbued in it to be the focus of the blight. the blight spreads outward from it.

anyway, that's my ted-x talk on the sith shrine in the depths.

[thanksgiving-isnt-ur-fav-holiday]

and FUCK sol and FUCK torbin

[shootingstarbit]

oh no

[sw5w]

There Was No Father

STAR WARS EPISODE I: The Phantom Menace 00:47:22

[gffa]

I think you could examine a lot of the writing for Sol in the finale of The Acolyte, where there's a very fair point that he's letting his emotions get the better of him, that a huge point is that his attachment to Osha (and it has truly become attachment at this point, not just love, but what the Jedi and Star Wars mean by attachment, the fear of living without someone because you are afraid of it) is making him act recklessly again, but also it's just so... clunky and so fast. LJJ is doing what he can with the material, but it's so telling that he's not allowed to actually explain why he killed Mother Aniseya, that it appeared that she was threatening the little girl that they were trying to protect. He's not allowed to explain because then Osha's reaction would look even more wildly 0 to 500mph. And it's the same for why he's trying to bring Mae in, like what will proving there was a vergence in the Force even do? Sure, it's of interest because it's incredibly powerful and potentially dangerous and should at least be checked out, that Sol thinks Osha and Mae are the same person in two bodies, but why does he care about proving that? What's that going to change at this point? How does that connect to his actions on Brendok, beyond "I had a reason to be suspicious"? That's already established! A vergence doesn't change that? But if he's not desperate to prove that, then his actions in the episode don't have a reason, they're just there because the show needs him to be going off the rails for Reasons. It's further reflected in just how unhinged he feels in this episode, like I get that we're meant to see Sol as someone who never dealt with the guilt of what happened, he kept it as a festering wound, and for a space psychic wizard, that is so much more dangerous than it is for non-space psychics, and I can agree, but also as a story, it just feels like he went from 0 to 500mph on the unhinged screaming Mae's name as he chased her down, that it all flipped on a dime, and I just don't get the impression that we're supposed to see him as having a Mask Off moment, especially given how he forgives Osha as she kills him and says it's okay while she's still choking him. Part of the problem is that only 8 episodes that aren't even 40 minutes long each means there's not enough room for what they want, but also part of it is just that the writing is not strong enough to convey what it wants and Sol's character pays the price for that, so he just feels weirdly out of character by the end for me.

[maidenvault]

The red flags are so blatant in what we see of Mother Aniseya’s coven, is it not registering for anyone else that Sol got too emotionally involved but his instincts might have been correct?

Mae and Osha don’t know anyone but this small community. No other children, no friends. Apparently they’re not even supposed to venture outside by themselves. They don’t have their own lives, brought up to basically think of themselves as one person.

Aniseya’s the only one who truly loves them and cares about Osha’s feelings. When everyone’s discussing her leaving, the others only talk about what it will mean for them and their future. They just want her power.

Aniseya singles out the youngest of the Jedi to control with her magic as a threat when they haven’t done anything hostile. It’s understandable they feel a bit threatened and I see why the Council says they overstepped, but Koril is ready from the time they show up to go to their camp and kill them all.

Why are they teaching the girls to fight like it’s so serious? If these women all just want to live here unbothered, what are they actually preparing them for? What was it going to mean when the ritual was completed with both of them, and was it going to do something irreversible?

Aniseya tells Osha that others don’t accept their ways so she wouldn’t like the outside world like she thinks. (A manipulation tactic in cults.) But with the Jedi’s perspective, it’s now clear everything they said when they interrupted the ceremony was basically a pretense for checking on the welfare of the girls and they don’t care about these witches practicing another Force-based religion or training kids. So if they’ve got this persecution complex it could certainly be because they’re actually doing something wrong. (Or just because they want to keep the power of this vergence all to themselves, all while saying they’re not like other girls 'cause to them the Force isn’t something you use or own.)

Most alarmingly once Aniseya’s dead, none of them try to get to the children in the burning building. They just keep attacking the Jedi for what they did.

Of course lots of viewers will say that many of these concerning things are problems with how the Jedi treat children, too. And that’s probably meant to be the point, that there are different ways of looking at it. But it’s telling how practically nobody’s even addressing them. This show certainly reads differently depending on the bias you come to it with.

And none of these things really give the Jedi the right to remove these children from their family. I don’t think Sol’s concern comes from nowhere, but whether Osha's safe here is a separate question from whether she should be a Jedi and not necessarily in their purview. But he’s not using clear judgment because of his feelings so he ends up just hurting Osha, surely worse than anything her own mother was going to put her through. Attachment is selfish love, it's not good actually!